#presidential-portraits

#presidential-portraits

The docent had finally stopped before the black-and-white photograph of a looming, glaring President Trump that dominates the entrance to the final rooms of the "America's Presidents" exhibit. We had managed not to talk about him for several minutes, swerving left toward the bright, kinetic John F. Kennedy painted by the abstract expressionist Elaine de Kooning and then crossing right to view Kehinde Wiley's portrait of Barack Obama-a calm, floating, saintlike figure surrounded by leaves and flowers.